Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week it is our duty to record the death, by financial strangulation, of the daily newspaper with the second largest circulation in the U.S. No one takes pleasure in the task, but no journalist can avoid assessing what makes some papers succeed and others fail, in a day when there is such competition for a reader's attention and affection...
...done according to the book, from the traditional 21-gun salute to a luncheon for 59 guests at the White House-but without notable enthusiasm. After lunch, Tito and Jovanka took in Washington's sights, but the route of their ten-limousine motorcade was kept so secret-to avoid demonstrations-that puzzled pedestrians along the way asked, "Who is it?" No Yugoslav flags decorated the thoroughfares-only some Irish banners left over from Prime Minister Sean Lemass' visit earlier in the week...
...safe Tory seat. However, he is eager to represent a Scottish constituency, and since no suitable seat will be vacant in the immediate future, he may have to hold on to his title temporarily and sit in the Other Place until the right Scottish by-election comes along. To avoid this impractical arrangement, Tories hoped to postpone Parliament's recall next week. How ever, Harold Wilson brusquely rejected the idea as "impertinence...
...perambulation! Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself. I therefore give notice that I shall go on strike and sit more in the control tower-just in time to avoid visiting a foreign secretary in the moon...
...November 4 Governor Wallace will speak at Sanders Theatre, and CRCC will hold a protest rally. Students will follow their tastes and attend one or the other or neither. This is as it should be. Those whose sensibilities are offended by Wallace may question or avoid or picket his speech. But surely their subjective views should not prevent others from choosing to hear what the Governor...